Egg:
Seattle school administrator.
Posted on 04/24/2011 7:44:01 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
A Seattle school in all of its political correctness now has renamed our Easter eggs with the offensive term of Spring Spheres. Candy canes sporting the red color of Christ’s blood and the green of the Christian Christmas tress have all but been banned from our schools.
As I stood to hear the Palm Sunday Sermon read, an account of Our Lord’s Passion and Death on the cross, I started to become very angry and very hurt. HOW DARE THEY? How dare they take away our Christmas and Easter holidays?
And here I am at a keyboard in a world this 75 year old could not even fathom when I was allowed to sing Christmas carols in my grade school. Just this week, my daughter called and after two long, very long phone calls from her in one week, she said at the end, “Mom, I’m afraid.” She and her husband are rearing four boys at home and have another away at the Illinois University I attended.
How dare our Liberal in Chief President order a Georgetown, a putative Catholic university to cover its crucifix before he would deign to speak for them ? How dare his pastor of 20 years call out from his own pulpit to damn America in the most blasphemous of oaths? How dare Michelle Obama tell a campaign audience she had never been proud of America until Barack?
Just think of how they insulted our veterans, let alone us! Think of our Revolutionary War fighters, American patriots that my English class could not even identify because their public school teachers had never told them about the sacrifices these Yankees made.
It is now doubtful those students could tell us anything about our Civil War……..
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What do Easter Eggs have to with The Passion anyways?
A celebration of Life!
Life will be eternal. For Jesus is the way the truth and the Life.
Happy Easter
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Haven’t you noticed? Our culture has been under assault for quite awhile now.
No more Washington and Lincoln’s Birthdays.
No more Christmas displays on public property.
The word Christmas itself removed from school programs.
Christmas trees are now “holiday” trees.
Army Street in San Francisco rechristened Cesar Chavez.
That’s just a small sample.
As a Jew, I have always viewed these arguments objectively. I am somewhat puzzled, however, by the affinity for Easter by Christians. I know that the period of Passover is what prompted Jesus to enter the city of Jerusalem - the seven day period that will live in infamy. So, Passover is the period during which the crucifixion would have occurred. Not Easter, which is celebrated based on the ever changing period of the equinox. Passover and Easter are, in some years, several weeks apart - Why? It is because Easter and the symbols utilized are of Pagan origin:
“Ishtar”, which is pronounced “Easter” was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called “Tammuz”, who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god.
Nimrod became a god-man to the people and Semiramis, his wife and mother, became the powerful Queen of ancient Babylon.
Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy, and his body was cut in pieces and sent to various parts of his kingdom.
Semiramis had all of the parts gathered, except for one part that could not be found.
That missing part was his reproductive organ. Semiramis claimed that Nimrod could not come back to life without it and told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called “Baal”, the sun god. Semiramis claimed that she was immaculately conceived.
She taught that the moon was a goddess that went through a 28 day cycle and ovulated when full.
She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River.
This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Semiramis became known as “Ishtar” which is pronounced “Easter”, and her moon egg became known as “Ishtar’s” egg.”
Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.
The son that she brought forth was named Tammuz.
Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god, Baal. Tammuz, like his supposed father, became a hunter.
The day came when Tammuz was killed by a wild pig.
Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz was now ascended to his father, Baal, and that the two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son and Spirit.
Ishtar, who was now worshipped as the “Mother of God and Queen of Heaven”, continued to build her mystery religion.
The queen told the worshippers that when Tammuz was killed by the wild pig, some of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree, and the stump grew into a full new tree overnight. This made the evergreen tree sacred by the blood of Tammuz.
She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz.
During this time, no meat was to be eaten.
Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the “T” in front of their hearts as they worshipped.
They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a “T” or cross on the top.
Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made.
It was Ishtar’s Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs.
Ishtar also proclaimed that because Tammuz was killed by a pig, that a pig must be eaten on that Sunday.
Some have wondered why the word “Easter” is in the the King James Bible.
It is because Acts, chapter 12, tells us that it was the evil King Herod, who was planning to celebrate Easter, and not the Christians.
The truth is that the forty days of Lent, eggs, rabbits,hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon.
I think the push-back is over the constant assault on Christianity due to political-correctness run amok; not so much on any similarities to other religions whether they be literal, figurative, coincidental or direct.
LOL.
The Truth, Way and Life is through Jesus Christ.
He was crucified. “Crucify him”
But he Arose from the dead. The Romans guarded the cave. Yet no body was there. He was seen and touched after he was Resurrected.
Prior tho this the Apostles hid, petrified of being found out and crucified.
But then, suddenly, they evangelized and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They didn’t care about death then, in fact they wished for it as they spread Truth.
What changed?
The Resurrection of The Christ.
That is Easter.
As to Easter itself, its all in the message.
Oh, and jump to:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2709773/posts
for a small bit of its history.
I suggest you read “The Case for the Real Jesus”. Lee Strobel. He has the answers you need
I’m surprised the Leftist women aren’t pushing for teaching of and worship of the fertility goddess of the of the sunrise/dawn Eostre (aka Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron, Ausos, Aphrodite, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Hathor, Ishtar, and Kali) to the young skulls full of mush in our government indoctrination camps aka “public skrools.”
I’ve read it, along with ‘The Case For Faith’, ‘The Case For A Creator’, ‘The Case For Christ’, and ‘That’s Where God Is’. I am a voracious reader and spend a lot of time pondering views, interpretations, and topics whether or not I concur with their premise. So, is the purpose of your post to inform me that my faith is incorrect, or that Jesus did not enter Jerusalem (as a Jew, mind you) during Passover?
It’s amazing that no matter how much things change they still stay the same. Do you really think the Christians on FR will read what you have written and walk away from a Spring pagan celebration that has been around for five or six thousand years?
It might plant a seed in a few people’s heads who may later change their mind but the truth as you have stated isn’t popular with people. Maybe a separate thread on what you have written should be started asking if Christians should still celebrate it and re-post it every year. I bet it would be a lively debate!
Don’t pass out...Passover!
Christianity was created from the mixing of Jewish and pagan cults in that area of the world. Do you research on what Robert has written and judge for yourself the fact if your religion has misled you a bit. Ponder what you find and pray for guidance.
Why do you think Jews have never capitulated to any other culture/civilization into accepting that man, even a Jewish rabbi, could ever be God who is defined by Jews as being non-corporeal? And by not doing so have suffered immense death as a result?
“So, is the purpose of your post to inform me that my faith is incorrect, or that Jesus did not enter Jerusalem (as a Jew, mind you) during Passover?”
Well since your original post was a less than subtle mockery of Christian Easter, in Holy Week...you deserve nothing less than honesty.
Your faith is of the one True God. But, you guys missed The Christ.
I suppose that on the most reverential Jewish Holy Days, you may find a Freeper willing to be so crass, on a thread by Jews, joyous in their celebrations. You’ve fulfilled that role here.
That is not the point of my post, although it would certainly lead to a constant barrage of flaming responses. My point is that so many people identify their faith solely by their celebrations or tradition without understanding the purpose or origin. I have spent years studying the Pentateuch, Haftorahs, Talmud and every text I can get my hands on including Christian non-fiction and the Bible.
Go to any church on Easter Sunday and take a count of the devout Christians - then return in two weeks and take the same count. Attending church on one day does not make someone a Christian any more than sitting in the garage makes you a car. The day is not the identity of the faith, the manner in which you conduct yourself every other day of the year provides more insight into the foundation of one’s faith
In the book, “Santa-Tizing” by Robin Main she says that after her Nimrod’s fateful death, Semiramis had to create a scheme so she could retain her exalted position as queen. She began to lie and tell people that Nimrod was willing to die for all mankind. Not only did Nimrod willingly sacrifice his body, but he had come back in the form of her son - Tammuz. Semiramis told the world that Nimrod had been reincarnated as Tammuz through her own immaculate conception experience which sounds just like Mary!
http://books.google.com/books?id=rkR4Is8ycikC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
You are quite incorrect. I did not post on a thread celebrating the Christ - I have more courtesy and regard for other's religious views than to do so. I posted on a thread which was taking offense to the renaming of "Easter Eggs" to "Spring Spheres". Well if the egg is the identity, let's really understand the origin.
Your thin skin has been revealed.
In those ancient times, there was a man named Nimrod, who was the grandson of one of Noah’s son named Ham.
Ham had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semiramis.Cush and Semiramis then had a son named him “Nimrod.”
After the death of his father, Nimrod married his own mother and became a powerful King.
The Bible tells of this man, Nimrod, in Genesis 10:8-10 as follows: “And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”
Nimrod became a god-man to the people and Semiramis, his wife and mother, became the powerful Queen of ancient Babylon.
Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy, and his body was cut in pieces and sent to various parts of his kingdom.
The intertwining of Pagan and Christian tradition began in Rome under Constantine and his conversion following his vision from Christ. The reasons had political implications: How do you get a largely Pagan population to accept, acclimate, and convert to Christianity. Constantine transitioned existing Pagan celebrations to bring about this change and retain the favor of political authority over the population. Because of his actions, hundreds of thousands were introduced to Christianity and accepted Christ as the Savior.
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